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title: Get started with LangSmith
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[LangSmith](https://www.langchain.com/langsmith) is a platform for building production-grade LLM applications. Monitor and evaluate your application, so you can ship quickly and with confidence.

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LangSmith is framework agnostic — you can use it with or without LangChain's open source frameworks [`langchain`](https://python.langchain.com) and [`langgraph`](https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/).
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    <Card
    title="Start tracing"
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    href="/langsmith/observability-quickstart"
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   Gain visibility into each step your application takes when handling a request to debug faster.
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    <Card
    title="Evaluate your application"
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    href="/langsmith/evaluation-quickstart"
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   Measure quality of your applications over time to build more reliable AI applications.
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    <Card
    title="Test your prompts"
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    href="/langsmith/prompt-engineering-quickstart"
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Iterate on prompts, with automatic version control and collaboration features.
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    <Card
    title="Set up your workspace"
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    href="/langsmith/administration-overview"
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Set up your workspace, configure admin settings, and invite your team to collaborate.
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